Short-term rentals in Allen County must collect the county innkeeper's tax of 8% on lodging under 30 days, plus Indiana's 7% state sales tax. The county tax is authorized separately from the uniform chapter under IC 6-9-9.
Indiana counties impose an innkeeper's (lodging) tax on rooms rented for fewer than 30 days. Allen County's rate is 8%, effective November 1, 2019, imposed under its own chapter, IC 6-9-9, one of twenty counties with authority apart from the uniform chapter. Since July 1, 2019, houses, condominiums, and apartments furnished for less than 30 days are subject to the tax, so Airbnb and Vrbo stays qualify. Hosts also collect the 7% state gross retail (sales) tax. The tax does not apply to stays of 30 days or more. Platforms may collect on the host's behalf; otherwise the host remits to the Indiana DOR.
Failure to collect and remit the innkeeper's tax and sales tax is enforced by the Indiana Department of Revenue as a tax deficiency, with interest and penalties assessed the same as for sales tax under IC 6-2.5.
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